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  2. Letters to the Editor MARCHING SONG

    Sir,—One thing missed in the A.I.F. during the last war was a good marching song. On the march someone would generally strike up a song, but as many ...

    Article : 169 words
  3. POET WHO DIED TOO SOON

    How are we to account for the perennial fascination of Keats? His very name stands invested with a subtle and indefinable magic; but ...

    Article : 1,485 words
  4. Restrictions de Guerre en France

    Avec quelques mois de retard sur PAngleterre, parce que tirant de son sol plus de ressources, la France s'est mise a restreindre sa consommation. Avant de ...

    Article : 952 words
  5. Nature Notes Blue Bill Or Chestnut Teal?

    Mr. Musselwhite, of Koyuga, denied in last week's notes that the wild duck he shot was a chestnut teal. ...

    Article : 827 words
  6. BOOKS of the DAY

    Familiar skill of Susan Ertz as a delineator of types is to be found in "One Fight More," though it is not her best book. A fault is a disposition to digress. ...

    Article : 232 words
  7. THE PASSING SHOW

    Sudden rise in the number of engagements and marriages since war began has put up, the price of diamonds. I met 'er at a local, ...

    Article : 1,409 words
  8. BYGONE DAYS

    REFERRING to last week's "Cameroddities" photograph of the opening of the railway line to Sale in 1877, Mr. H. Hartrick sends me a description of a journey ...

    Article : 994 words
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    This is one of the many nature studies by Kurt Wiese which appear as illustrations to Commander Attilio Gatti's latest book of jungle lore, "Soronga ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 73 words
  10. M.C.C. GROUND

    Sir,—It does seem an anomaly that a magnificent ground like that of the M.C.C. should be practically unused each alternate Saturday in the football season. ...

    Article : 96 words
  11. PLANNING AHEAD

    Sir,—Mr. Herbert Hoover's statement (in your Daily Digest), that it is nonsense to hope for a new and better world after the war is depressing. This ...

    Article : 146 words
  12. A Better World

    We are continually being reminded that the present war is the occasion, not only for fighting, but for constructive thinking and action which will ensure that ...

    Article : 416 words
  13. Mabel Tyrrell Scores

    Another novel by Mabel L. Tyrrell is welcome. She always tells a first-rate story, never commits the cardinal fault of slowing up the action with excess ...

    Article : 273 words
  14. LABOUR SPLIT

    Sir,—In appealing for Labour unity, Mr. Curtin sought to bolster up his arguments by referring to "enemies of the working-class and reactionaries who ...

    Article : 69 words
  15. WERRIBEE BEEF

    Sir,—Those who advocate the eating of Werribee beef should spend a few hours on the farm on a hot day.—Yours. ...

    Article : 26 words
  16. HEIL, WANKLE!

    Sir,—Congratulations to Armstrong on finding the word for it. "Wankle" just about expresses the faint-hearted victim of the war of nerves who gets panicky ...

    Article : 87 words
  17. Three-year Blackout

    Between the time that Peter Sable, a young bank clerk in Queensland, joined too heartily in the marriage festivities of his friend, Charlie Morton, and his ...

    Article : 189 words
  18. FOOTBALL POLITICS

    Sir,—At the commencement of the football season your sports editor, Mr. P. Taylor, stated that football enthusiasts of vision considered that from ...

    Article : 94 words
  19. Advertising

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    Advertising : 684 words
  20. LOCAL TALENT.

    Sir,—It is true, as Mr. Leonard Mann says, that Australian authors are doing better work in many respects than English writers. It is also true that no ...

    Article : 112 words
  21. In Time of Earthquake

    This is a book upon a book. The writer, minister of a Church at Basle, Switzerland, feels the tremor of impending catastrophe. He speaks to the ...

    Article : 445 words
  22. MENUHIN

    Yehudi Menuhin, child prodigy of the violin, back in Australia after five years, is now a serious-minded young family man, a mature artist ...

    Article : 568 words
  23. PLAN FOR PEACE

    Sir,—Why these suggestions for a[?] early Federal election? The Government has pursued a vigorous war policy, and has set our economic system in such good ...

    Article : 125 words
  24. Advertising

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    Advertising : 101 words
  25. "INVISIBLE WOUNDS"

    PEOPLE do not always die of physical causes. They are not always ill of complaints that can be diagnosed by the surgeon. There are deeper, more subtle ...

    Article : 480 words
  26. ANZAC HOLIDAY

    Sir,—If it is true loyalty, as A. M. Betts claims, for children to be at school on national holidays, why are our State schools closed? I contend that the[?] ...

    Article : 66 words
  27. TEACHING GERMAN

    Sir,—I have read that educationists d[?] not support Professor Osborne's state[?] ment "that the study of French [?] schools was waste of time, and that Ger[?] ...

    Article : 103 words
  28. RACING TOPIC

    Sir,—"Beresford's" reference to la[?] scratching of fancied horses should n[?] pass unnoticed by the V.R.C. Place-ca[?] betting is illegal, yet it is prevalent an[?] ...

    Article : 124 words
  29. Advertising

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    Advertising : 217 words
  30. INVALID GETS CHAIR

    Sir,—Let me thank you very sincere[?] for publishing my appeal for an inval[?] chair. I had gratefully accepted on[?] offer and had received another before[?] ...

    Article : 81 words
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